Enlarge (credit: portal gda / Flickr) A benign barcode scanner with more than 10 million downloads from Google Play has been caught receiving an upgrade that turned it to the dark side, prompting the search and advertising giant to remove it. Barcode Scanner, one of dozens of such apps available in the official Google app […]
The controversial Pi update just adds Microsoft’s VS Code repo in a separate file in sources.list.d. No actual packages were installed. [credit: Jim Salter ] We were recently alerted to something of a tempest in a teapot: When the Raspberry Pi Foundation made it easier to install Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code development environment, some Linux […]
Enlarge Google is in hot water after banning the Google account of Andrew Spinks, the lead developer of the hit indie game Terraria. The YouTube account of Spinks’ game dev company, Re-Logic, was hit with some kind of terms-of-service violation, resulting in Google banning Spinks’ entire Google account, greatly disrupting his company’s ability to do business. After […]
Reddit user matejamm1’s screenshot illustrating the change in iOS 14.5. [credit: u/matejamm1 ] It had long been an inescapable fact about Apple’s iOS operating system for iPhones that you couldn’t change your default apps away from those made by Apple itself. But only a few months after Apple changed course and allowed users to change the […]
Enlarge (credit: Olly Curtis | Getty Images) The camera on the first iPhone way back in 2007 was a mere 2 megapixels. And it only had a rear camera; there wasn’t even a front-facing selfie shooter. Today, you’ll find multiple cameras on the front and back of phones—some of them with sensors as large as […]
Enlarge / Users can install Homebrew via the Terminal in macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) Popular Mac tool Homebrew has long been used by developers and others for package management on macOS, but as we lamented in our first M1 Mac review, it didn’t support Apple Silicon when Apple’s new Macs first launched late last year. […]
(credit: Chrome) Users of Google’s Chrome browser have faced three security concerns over the past 24 hours in the form of a malicious extension with more than 2 million users, a just-fixed zero-day, and new information about how malware can abuse Chrome’s sync feature to bypass firewalls. Let’s discuss them one by one. First up, […]
Like Minisforum’s earlier designs, the U8x0 packs a lot more expandability into its tiny form factor than you might expect—including room for two internal 2.5-inch SATA SSDs or HDDs. [credit: Minisforum ] Hong Kong-based miniature PC specialist Minisforum announced two new models of its signature NUC-like minis available for pre-order this week; the U820 and […]
Snapchat on an iPhone. (credit: Maurizio Pesce) Social media company Snap (which runs Snapchat) and game development software company Unity have joined Facebook in warning their investors that Apple’s imminent ad-tracking change will negatively impact their businesses. As previously reported, Apple plans to use the next iOS update (iOS 14.5, due out in early spring) […]
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images) It’s still early, but Apple’s new tracking restrictions on iOS sure seem to be causing headaches for the Internet ad industry. Just last week, Google told partners to expect a “significant impact” to ad revenue, while Facebook has launched an all-out war against Apple’s tracking initiative and is reportedly considering […]